Chapter 227 - 147: New Label

Chapter 227: Chapter 147: New Label

"VZZZZZZZZT—!"

An ear-piercing shriek rang out.

Two crimson beams of Laser Eye energy landed squarely on the Zombie Rat King on the ground.

They instantly sliced its massive body in two.

With two loud THUDS, the halves slammed onto the ground separately.

Kicking up a cloud of dust.

"VZZZZZZZZT—!"

The ear-piercing shriek continued.

Song Anni flew above the Zombie Rat King. With her hands on her hips, she slowly descended, her eyes glowing as she continuously fired laser beams to destroy the Zombie Rat King’s enormous body.

By the time she had descended from a hundred meters in the air to the ground,

the Zombie Rat King’s massive body had been scorched black by the high-energy lasers, mangled beyond recognition. It no longer looked anything like a rat.

Seeing that the Rat King’s body was completely destroyed,

the eerie Rat Head Mask immediately pulled all its tiny tendrils from the Rat King’s face and tried to flee the scene of its defeat at top speed.

But it had barely moved when, in the next second, Song Anni teleported in front of it like a phantom, raised a red combat boot, and pinned it firmly under her foot.

"Still trying to run?"

Song Anni raised a hand to brush back her smooth, shining golden hair. She looked down imperiously at the trembling Rat Head Mask, her clear, azure eyes filled with contempt for the useless thing.

Then, with a light flick of her toe, she kicked the Rat Head Mask into the air and snatched it tightly in her hand.

Without a second glance, she willed it into her Storage Ring.

Just as she finished this sequence of actions,

a wave of excited and thrilled cheers suddenly erupted from the nearby girls’ dormitory:

"AHHHHHHHHHHH—!"

"That lady is so cool!"

"She saved us! We women can hold up half the sky, too!"

"That’s right! We girls are the strongest!"

"She’s our hero!"

"Hero! Hero! Hero... Hero! Hero! Hero!"

At that moment, a group of girls in the dormitory began to bask in Song Anni’s glory.

Every one of them looked proud as they shouted at the top of their lungs, hailing their fellow woman, Song Anni, as a hero.

Song Anni’s expression had been blank, even a little cold.

But after hearing the cheers, a brilliant smile instantly spread across her face. She pointed a hand toward the group of girls in the dormitory cheering for her and laughed.

"Hahaha! No, I’m no hero. I’m just a passing Extraordinary Being. You, the ones cheering for me, are the real heroes!"

As she said this, her smile was so hearty it seemed unbefitting of a woman; she laughed more boldly than many men.

Clearly, she was enjoying the girls’ cheers.

Xia Shuran watched this scene unfold, feeling somewhat annoyed.

’Senior was the one who saved them. He’s the real MVP. That blonde just kill-stole. Yet they’re only cheering for her, completely ignoring what he contributed. This is so unfair!’

Xia Shuran felt wronged on Gu Qing’s behalf.

Gu Qing, however, didn’t feel much of anything. He just quietly fixed his gaze on Song Anni, carefully studying her beautiful, azure eyes.

’These are eyes that can shoot lasers. The beams they fire are incredibly powerful; they instantly killed the Zombie Rat King whose defenses I couldn’t even break. I wonder how I can farm her [Superman] tag. What kind of powerful Attributes would I get? Laser Eye? Flight? Or some other Attribute?’

Gu Qing was full of curiosity.

As if sensing his gaze,

Song Anni suddenly stopped interacting with the girls in the dormitory and walked toward him.

"Gu Qing, we meet again."

"Yes, Captain Song."

Gu Qing replied with a smile.

Song Anni reached out and patted his shoulder, saying with a smile, "I have high hopes for you. I hope you awaken soon and join my Monster Assault Team."

Before Gu Qing could respond, she shifted her gaze from him to the others nearby.

When her eyes swept over him, Zhao Chuan instinctively lowered his head, his palms sweating with nervousness.

The captain of the Monster Assault Team had given him too much psychological trauma.

He was so terrified that he didn’t dare make eye contact, afraid she would bully him.

However, Song Anni didn’t even look at him, ignoring him as if he were thin air.

The person Song Anni wanted to see was Xia Shuran.

She walked straight up to Xia Shuran and stopped.

Her gaze fell on Xia Shuran’s chest.

The more she looked, the more satisfied she seemed.

"Xiaoxia, I have high hopes for you, too. I hope you have a child soon."

Song Anni looked up into Xia Shuran’s eyes, her voice filled with a thirsting desire.

As she stared, she suddenly felt a craving.

She immediately reached for the distinctive baby bottle hanging from her waist and used her Laser Eye to heat the milk inside, which was so full it was about to overflow.

Then, in front of everyone, she began to drink the comfortably warm milk with a look of pure enjoyment, completely ignoring the strange looks from others.

Xia Shuran watched her drink the milk the entire time.

After she finished,

Xia Shuran immediately said to her, "Captain Song, before you arrived at Hai University to provide support, it was Senior who was fighting those powerful Rat God Cultists."

"If it weren’t for Senior, we and the students of Hai University would have likely suffered heavy casualties."

"Senior protected all of us."

Unwilling to let Gu Qing’s credit be stolen, Xia Shuran explained the situation to Song Anni with a serious expression.

After listening, Song Anni smiled faintly. "Alright, I understand. When I get back to the Night Court, I’ll pass on everything you’ve said to the boss."

Xia Shuran was surprised. She hadn’t expected the blonde woman to be so reasonable.

Song Anni looked at the crowd and said, "I can sense many bottomless caves under Hai University. I’m going down to investigate now. I’ll leave the cleanup work on the surface to you."

As soon as she finished speaking, she shot up from the ground and, with a WHOOSH, flew at high speed toward the athletic field.

Then, under everyone’s watchful eyes, she plunged headfirst into the deep pit full of rat toxin.

Gu Qing was very curious about what was inside the deep pit and wanted to follow her in to find out.

But on second thought, he reconsidered.

’Unknown places are always dangerous. I’d better not rush in to join the excitement. Yes, I’ll let that Female Superman scout it out first. When she comes out, I’ll ask her about the situation. If it doesn’t seem too dangerous, I can go down myself then to satisfy my curiosity.’

With this cautious thought in mind,

Gu Qing didn’t go near any of the deep pits for the time being.

Instead, he joined the others in the cleanup work.

「During this time.」

Gu Qing ran into his three roommates.

The three of them had just returned from the internet cafe across from the school. The moment they saw Gu Qing, they all ran toward him, their expressions ecstatic.

While at the cafe, they had all seen the video of Gu Qing exterminating rats on the athletic field earlier.

So, as soon as they saw him, they ran up and bombarded him with a ton of questions:

"Old Gu, what the hell is going on? Where did all these mutated rats at our school pop out from?"

"Gu Qing, we all saw the video of you killing rats on the field! What kind of divine power was that? Are you really the Gu Qing we know?"

"Old Gu, I’ve been seeing a lot of analyses online these past few days saying that Earth might be experiencing the legendary Spiritual Energy Recovery. Is that for real?"

"Also, you suddenly got so strong before—stronger at basketball, stronger at video games. Did you become an Extraordinary Being back then?"

"Old Gu, if we’re brothers, you have to tell us the truth! Don’t keep us in the dark!"

"..."

The roommates’ questions came one after another, too many to answer.

Listening to them, Gu Qing felt a headache coming on.

Just as he was patiently preparing to answer his roommates’ questions one by one,

Suddenly, among the settled crowd not far ahead, he saw an extremely conspicuous three-word Extraordinary tag:

—[Dark Forbidden Scholar]

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